Ulrich Adrian

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Ulrich Adrian (born February 13, 1958 in Gevelsberg ) was a German television journalist . He was from September 2009 to August 2014 the Polish - Correspondent of ARD and Director of the Warsaw television studios.

Life

Ulrich Adrian began his journalistic activities as a schoolboy at the Westdeutsche Zeitung (WZ) and later also wrote for the Westfalenpost (WP) and for the Westfälische Rundschau . After graduating from high school, Adrian studied politics , German and modern history at the universities of Cologne and Bonn .

In 1982 he began to work as a freelancer for the television of West German Broadcasting Corporation (WDR). In 1984 he was employed as an editor at WDR in the editorial department of the regional broadcast Here and Today . In 1992 he was part of the founding team of the ARD morning magazine , for which he completed hundreds of live switches as a reporter at home and abroad until 1999. Among other things, he reported as a travel correspondent from Afghanistan , Belgium, France, Italy, Canada, Poland, Rwanda , Turkey, the then Zaire , Bosnia-Herzegovina , Tanzania , China , Russia and the Ukraine .

From 1999 to 2001 he was the USA correspondent in Washington, DC for two years . After several years in the international editorial office of the WDR in Cologne , he moved to New York as ARD correspondent on February 1, 2008 and temporarily headed the ARD television studio there. In 2009 he took over the management of the television studio in Warsaw as the successor to Robin Lautenbach . In 2014 he returned to the WDR headquarters in Cologne. Most recently (2017) Adrian reported several times from Moscow as part of his video blog.

Ulrich Adrian is married to the journalist Astrid Adrian and has two children.

engagement

Together with Rainer Seidel, a now retired career advisor from the Employment Agency in Aachen , Ulrich Adrian initiated the Rohren journalism seminar for the first time in 1989 . Named after the venue, a small Eifel village near Monschau , the ten-day journalists' seminar took place annually up to and including 2017, which was led by Adrian and his wife. The participants from all over Germany produced radio and television programs independently, attended appointments in the Eifel and wrote articles that often appeared in local newspapers there.

Individual evidence

  1. Now to New York as ARD correspondent: Ulrich Adrian , accessed on April 6, 2018
  2. Article from “The West” on the takeover of the Warsaw television studio , September 1, 2009
  3. WDR hands over ARD reporting to rbb wdr.de , September 19, 2014.
  4. Ulrich Adrian on Tour , accessed on May 11, 2018

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